On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 15:59:57 -0800, nicolas cellier ncellier@ifrance.com wrote:
However, there are plenty of ordinary things that would have the same result:
| key1 key2 dic | key1 := 'abc' copy. key2 := 'abd' copy. dic := Dictionary new. dic at: key1 put: 1. dic at: key2 put: 2. key1 at: 1 put: $z. {dic includesKey: key1. dic keys includes: key1.}
So i propose newbies do not use #at:put: considering the danger about Dictionary not finding their keys...
This seems pretty bad to me, too, but it seems more designed to break a known weakness than to actually accomplish something. You know, like empty a collection.<s>
But I'd probably argue that the above should work, and that it's a design flaw that it doesn't.
Anyway, why do you think all code is accessible in Smalltalk? In the spirit, nothing is to be hidden from newbies eyes. Yes I know, maybe some code should
There's a positive fetish about this. I'm all for everything being accessible. But everything being equally accessible all the time is not pragmatic.